Your manuscript knows your mistakes
After chapter 14 you can’t see your own book. Galley can.
Revision is where a draft becomes a novel, and where tired eyes miss the most. Galley runs the checks you can't run on yourself, keeps a net under every change, and — only if you want it — keeps count of the words while you do.
Your own fillers, counted — not a style rule. “Quiet” peaking in the chapter called The Station at Dusk is probably fine; “just” at 7.4 per thousand probably isn’t.
At Weirwater the lamps were lit by hand, and it was Mara Vale who lit them, down at The Quiet Harbour before the neap.1
At Weirwater Station the lamps were not yet lit. Someone had left before the end of their watch.
* * *
The crossing that mattered was set down in the harbour ledger, in a level hand.
Revision
“just” — 7.4 / 1,000
After sixty thousand words you can't see your own tics. The manuscript counts them for you.
The checks your tired eye can’t run
Rename a character across every chapter from one box, with a snapshot taken first in case you regret it. Count your fillers per thousand words and see the chapter each one peaks in. Find the character called Jeanie 41 times and Jeany once. Sweep for British/American drift, hyphenation and stray straight quotes — and it leaves dialogue alone, because a character who says "colour" isn't a typo.
Read it the way a reader will
Read-through gives you the whole book end to end, no sidebar, no chapter boundaries to click past. Book at a glance turns it into shape instead: chapter lengths side by side, how much of each is dialogue, how long the sentences run. That's where you find the chapter that sags, which is not the one you thought.
Out at Lantern Rock the keeper kept the light, humming an old song against the wind, over work that no longer needed the tune.
Whatever the tide left, it left at his door first: a boot, a bottle, once a whole door with its hinges still on.
* * *
On the lowest neap of the year the harbour gave up its floor, and the town walked out onto it to see what the sea had been keeping.
CHAPTER TWO
A Letter Unsent
At Weirwater the lamps were lit by hand, and it was Mara Vale who lit them, in an order no one had written down and everyone kept.
The station had not sent a boat in nine days. She wrote it in the ledger the way she wrote everything, in a small level hand that gave nothing away.
Out at Lantern Rock the keeper kept the light, humming an old song against the wind, over work that no longer needed the tune.
At Weirwater the lamps were lit by hand, and it was Mara Vale who lit them, down at The Quiet Harbour before the neap.1
At Weirwater Station the lamps were not yet lit. Someone had left before the end of their watch.
* * *
The crossing that mattered was set down in the harbour ledger, in a level hand.
Read-through
The whole book
One scroll, front to back, read-only — the way a reader will meet it, not the way you wrote it.
Nothing is ever really gone
Daily version snapshots per chapter, compared against the current text and restorable. Draft milestones for the versions that matter, so "the draft I sent my agent" stays a thing you can open. Deleted books and chapters wait 30 days in the bin.
Momentum, if you want it
Set a daily target per book, or don't. There's a ring for today, a chart for the last two weeks, and a streak that counts itself — and a quiet mode with none of it, because some people write to a schedule and some wait for the rain. Chapters read as draft → revised → final, so you can see how much of the book is actually finished rather than how much of it exists.
Where you left off
The Lantern of Quiet Hours
412 / your goal
Last 14 days
Your other books
A Winter of Small Rooms
The Keeper’s Account
Recent sessions
The Station at Dusk
A Letter Unsent
What the Tide Left
At Weirwater the lamps were lit by hand, and it was Mara Vale who lit them, down at The Quiet Harbour before the neap.1
At Weirwater Station the lamps were not yet lit. Someone had left before the end of their watch.
* * *
The crossing that mattered was set down in the harbour ledger, in a level hand.
Momentum
412 words today
The book you were last in, one click from resuming — with the goal you set, never a nag.
What's included
Every card goes to the part of the docs that explains it.
Thirty minutes in it beats reading about it.
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